How to Navigate Flood Zones When Buying a Home in NW Louisiana
Posted by Adam Lytle on
There are quite a few neighborhoods in the Shreveport/Bossier area of course and each neighborhood may have a portion of it that is in a flood zone so a lot of times we have to run a specific address to get a read on where the home is in relation to the flood zone. With that said, it's not the end of the world if the property is located in a flood zone but it does mean that more due diligence would be necessary to make a wise decision on that level. By that I mean that each property is built up a certain number of feet over or under what is called the "base flood elevation" or "BFE". So let's say that you buy a home in a flood zone and the BFE is 100' (which means that if a 100-year flood happened the water would rise as high as 100') but the lowest…
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